8-letter words containing p, u, r, d
- perfused — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- peridium — the outer enveloping coat of the fruit body in many fungi.
- perjured — guilty of perjury.
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- podargus — a bird of South East Asia and Australia
- polydrug — being or pertaining to several drug used simultaneously, especially narcotics or addictive drugs: a center for dealing with polydrug abuse.
- postdrug — following the administration of a drug
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- prebuild — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- preclude — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- preguide — to give (somebody) guidance in advance
- prejudge — to judge beforehand.
- preluded — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- preludio — a musical prelude
- premould — to mould in advance
- prestudy — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- presumed — to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you're tired after your drive.
- prideful — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- produced — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- producer — a person who produces.
- profound — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- propound — to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose: to propound a theory.
- protrude — to project.
- proud of — highly pleased with or exulting in
- proudest — feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often followed by of, an infinitive, or a clause).
- proudful — proud; full of pride.
- proudhon — Pierre Joseph [pyer zhaw-zef] /pyɛr ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1809–65, French socialist and writer.
- proudish — rather proud
- prud'hon — Pierre Paul [pyer pawl] /pyɛr pɔl/ (Show IPA), (Pierre Prudon) 1758–1823, French painter.
- prudence — a female given name.
- pseudery — pretentious talk
- puckered — a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- puffbird — any of several tropical American birds of the family Bucconidae, related to the barbets, having a large head with the feathers often fluffed out.
- punditry — the opinions or methods of pundits.
- pundonor — a point of honour
- purblind — nearly or partially blind; dim-sighted.
- purebred — of or relating to an animal, all of whose ancestors derive over many generations from a recognized breed.
- purified — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- purposed — the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
- puruloid — resembling pus.
- pushcard — punchboard.
- puttered — to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- raptured — (especially of saints) experiencing religious ecstasy as a result of one's faith.
- recouped — to get back the equivalent of: to recoup one's losses by a lucky investment.
- round up — having a flat, circular surface, as a disk.
- sandspur — an American wild grass
- sauropod — any herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder Sauropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, long neck and tail, and five-toed limbs: the largest known land animal.
- serpulid — a marine polychaete worm of the family Serpulidae, which constructs and lives in a calcareous tube attached to stones or seaweed and has a crown of ciliated tentacles